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OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims (futurism.com)
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OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever reportedly likes to burn effigies and lead ritualistic chants at the company.

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[โ€“] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In my experience the engineers usually hate the motivational bullshit that managers dream up because they have too much time and no actual skills. The best thing you can do is give the engineers a bit of respect and some quiet time to do their work.

[โ€“] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

It's wildly variable who likes that stuff or not, in my experience. If there is purpose behind it and it's mildly healthy, it can lean more on acceptance'ish. To your point, complete outlandish bullshit does get disregarded quickly. (I have seen both scenarios but I also did a bad job of expressing that the landscape of personality types is massive.)